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Mexican IP Director: 'Piracy Is Worse Than Drug Trafficking'
osé Rodrigo Roque Díaz, the director of the Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property (IMPI) said this week that combating piracy and copyright infringement is a “much more important” issue facing Mexico than drug trafficking.
In an article posted at Spanish news site Radio Fórmula, Díaz stated piracy is “a brutal problem for Mexican society and the world.” Furthermore, he compared piracy to “the theft of a house or a vehicle.”
To put his claims into perspective, earlier this year Microsoft announced counterfeit copies of its ubiquitous Office software were being manufactured and sold in the country by the notorious “La Familia” drug cartel. In March a report titled “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies” alluded to the fact that in countries such as Mexico the price of software – when compounded with relatively low incomes – is a key motivating factor for content theft.
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osé Rodrigo Roque Díaz, the director of the Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property (IMPI) said this week that combating piracy and copyright infringement is a “much more important” issue facing Mexico than drug trafficking.
In an article posted at Spanish news site Radio Fórmula, Díaz stated piracy is “a brutal problem for Mexican society and the world.” Furthermore, he compared piracy to “the theft of a house or a vehicle.”
To put his claims into perspective, earlier this year Microsoft announced counterfeit copies of its ubiquitous Office software were being manufactured and sold in the country by the notorious “La Familia” drug cartel. In March a report titled “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies” alluded to the fact that in countries such as Mexico the price of software – when compounded with relatively low incomes – is a key motivating factor for content theft.
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